Forwarding Dirk Frigne nomination to the board by Jeff McKenna. Best Jorge
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeff McKenna Date: 2014-08-11 16:31 GMT+02:00 Subject: Board nomination - Dirk Frigne To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: dirk frigne It is my pleasure to nominate Dirk Frigne[1], from Belgium, to join OSGeo's Board of Directors. Having been involved in the Board for so long, I know what makes a good OSGeo Board member, and I see that in Dirk. He has that rare passion and vision for community, and speaks strongly about building and maintaining a healthy OSGeo 'ecosystem' made up of both the development community as well as professional service providers. I had the pleasure of sitting down to dinner with Dirk way back at FOSS4G Cape Town in 2008, and he has since went on to form the company Geosparc[2], and build the OSGeo project geomajas[3] into a healthy community. More recently, many community leaders pulled me aside and were impressed with his views on the 'membership' topic, and specifically his views on what are the core principles of OSGeo. Dirk understands the industry today, our community, the software, and is willing to help guide the growth of the foundation. I feel strongly that he would be a wonderful addition to the OSGeo Board of Directors. -jeff [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf [2] http://www.geosparc.com/ [3] http://www.osgeo.org/geomajas -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
